mergemaster annoyance or not?

[Andrei Kolu]

Hello!

As long time FreeBSD user I am concerned about RELEASE and STABLE 
configuration files inconsistency. No big deal but really annoying if 
you want to upgrade systems occassionally. The problem is that there is 
huge amount of old files between RELEASE and STABLE config files- more 
precisely lots of older config files in STABLE that is really strange 
considered that it should be much newer than RELEASE.

FE:

-# $FreeBSD: src/etc/rc.d/network_ipv6,v 1.37.18.1 2008/11/25 02:59:29 
kensmith Exp $
+# $FreeBSD: src/etc/rc.d/network_ipv6,v 1.37 2004/10/07 13:55:26 mtm Exp $

-# $FreeBSD: src/etc/rc.d/newsyslog,v 1.5.2.1.2.1 2008/11/25 02:59:29 
kensmith Exp $
+# $FreeBSD: src/etc/rc.d/newsyslog,v 1.5.2.1 2008/01/28 07:55:44 dougb 
Exp $

-# $FreeBSD: src/etc/rc.d/nfsclient,v 1.6.6.1 2008/11/25 02:59:29 
kensmith Exp $
+# $FreeBSD: src/etc/rc.d/nfsclient,v 1.6 2006/12/31 10:37:18 yar Exp $

-# $FreeBSD: src/etc/rc.d/nfsd,v 1.13.10.1.2.1 2008/11/25 02:59:29 
kensmith Exp $
+# $FreeBSD: src/etc/rc.d/nfsd,v 1.13.10.1 2008/01/28 07:55:44 dougb Exp $

-# $FreeBSD: src/etc/crontab,v 1.32.32.1 2008/11/25 02:59:29 kensmith Exp $
+# $FreeBSD: src/etc/crontab,v 1.32 2002/11/22 16:13:39 tom Exp $


Oh, and why I have to remove myself from the system? I don't get it. 
Same problem with master.password file- why the hell I have to change that?

-# $FreeBSD: src/etc/group,v 1.35.6.1 2008/11/25 02:59:29 kensmith Exp $
+# $FreeBSD: src/etc/group,v 1.35 2007/06/11 18:36:39 ceri Exp $
 #
-wheel:*:0:root,antik
+wheel:*:0:root
 daemon:*:1:
 kmem:*:2:
 sys:*:3:
@@ -29,4 +29,3 @@
 www:*:80:
 nogroup:*:65533:
 nobody:*:65534:
-antik:*:1001:



How comes that difference is 4 years? Of course files are identical but 
this is annoying to go through files that is not changed at all. Some 
files are newer- that's expected BTW. Please syncronize your cvs between 
releases.